The top 1 percent of earners in the United States saw their average household incomes grow a whopping 279 percent from 1979 to 2007, according to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study (PDF) published this week.
Feminist author Naomi Wolf was arrested last night outside the Huffington Post's "Game Changers" awards ceremony as she marched with about 150 members of "Occupy Wall Street" to protest New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's (D) resistance to raising taxes on the wealthy.
As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote down legislation that would raise tax rates on the wealthiest Americans to pay for a jobs plan that most economists believe would stop the recession, a new poll has surfaced showing just how out of touch those Senators are with mainstream America.
